Month: October 2020

Prescription drug price comparison platform GoodRx (NASDAQ:GDRX) has a noble mission of helping people to locate the medications they need at the best available price. It’s an idea whose time has come, and I’m glad to see that the recent initial public offering (IPO) of GoodRx stock was accompanied by heavy trading volume. Source: II.studio
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Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a more than $230 billion technology company that has suffered since the start of the pandemic. As the company’s peers have recovered significantly, the company itself hasn’t performed nearly as well. Almost two months ago, we discussed how Intel should spin off Mobileye. While we maintain the thesis, Intel has chosen
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An index mutual fund is a type of fund that invests all, or nearly all, of its total assets in securities comprising its underlying index. Index funds use passive investment strategies and thus tend to have low turnover and low expense ratios. Funds that implement indexing strategies require less portfolio management and active trading, which minimizes
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Whatever the outcome, the November presidential election promises to bring a period of uncertainty and volatility to the markets. However, equities are still your best long-term bet, two experts said on Tuesday at the CNBC Financial Advisor Summit, a day-long virtual conference for financial advisors. After hitting fresh highs even during the Covid-19 crisis, stocks
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Pedestrians pass in front of Pinterest signage displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Netflix — The entertainment stock sank 6.5% after missing Wall Street expectations for third-quarter earnings and subscriber additions. Netflix added 2.2 million subscribers globally
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This should have been a bad time to own Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS). The global pandemic, the great cable cord cut, and the end of broadcasting as we know it should have all sent shares of Disney stock down. A rare quarterly loss, $2.61 per share, was announced in August. Another loss is expected when the company
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For most of the 2010s, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been one of the market’s most polarizing battleground stocks. But, over the past year, this bull versus bear debate has become increasingly one-sided, as TSLA stock has soared more than 800% on the back of record demand, record deliveries, record revenues and record profits. Source: InvestorPlace Have
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Back when the novel coronavirus pandemic was at its ugliest in terms of societal and economic impact, most industries looked bleak. With American households hunkering down against an unknown microbiological threat, doom-and-gloom prognostications took on much greater credibility. However, streaming company Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) was one of the few obvious winners. After all, when sitting at
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Biotechnology penny stocks, such as Aptorum Group (NASDAQ:APM), have become highly popular. On Sept. 28, APM stock closed at $1.22. The next day, it hit an intraday high of $14.23, only to end the end day at $4.76. Now, the shares are hovering around $2.50. Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock.com Investors wonder if they should invest
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Luckin Coffee (OTCMKTS:LKNCY) has had quite the year so far. Once touted as China’s answer to Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Luckin has been at the center of perhaps the largest Chinese fraud. The $300 million accounting fraud led to Luckin stock losing 74% of its value this year and its listing on the Nasdaq. However, with a
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Basel III—also referred to as the Third Basel Accord or Basel Standards—is a 2009 international regulatory accord that introduced a set of reforms designed to improve the regulation, supervision, and risk management within the international banking sector. Basel III required that banks maintain proper leverage ratios and keep certain levels of reserve capital on hand.
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